Elizabeth Smart Explains How She Survived Her 9 Month Capture

No Longer A Victim

Source:http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net

Elizabeth is quite adamant about her purpose of helping others who have been victimized like she has. She says, “You can never judge a child or a victim of any crime on what they should have done because you weren’t there and you don’t know and you have no right just to sit in your armchair at home and say ‘Well, why didn’t you escape? Why didn’t you do this?’ I mean, they just don’t know.” She continues, “That’s wrong. And I was 14. I was a little girl. And I had seen this man successfully kidnap me, he successfully chained me up, he successfully raped me, he successfully did all of these things. What was to say that he wouldn’t kill me when he’d make those threats to me? What was to say that he wouldn’t kill my family?”

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